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Bibel, Wolfgang Leonhard was born on October 28, 1938 in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany. Son of Hans and Marie (Riegelbauer) Bibel.
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Since both the coments and the structure of the book appeared to be successful, only minor changes were made. In particular, some recent work in ATP has been incorporated so that the book continues to reflect the state of the art in the field. The most significant change is in the quality of the layout including the removal of a number of inaccuracies and typing errors. R. Caferra, E. Eder, F. van der Linden, and J. Muller have caught vanous minor errors. P. Haddawy and S.T. Pope have provided many stilistic improvements of the English text. Last not least, A. Bentrup and W. Fischer have produced the beautiful layout. The extensive work of typesetting was financally supported within ESPRIT pro ject 415. Munchen, September 1986 W. Bibel PREFACE Among the dreams of mankind is the one dealing with the mechanization of human thought. As the world today has become so complex that humans apparently fail to manage it properly with their intellectual gifts, the realization of this dream might be regarded even as something like a necessity. On the other hand, the incredi ble advances in computer technology let it appear as a real possibility.
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Among the dreams of mankind is the one dealing with the mecha nization of human thought. As the world today has become so complex that humans apparently fail to manage it properly with their intellectual gifts, the realization of this dream might be regarded even as something like a necessity. On the other hand, the incredible advances in computer technology let it appear as a real possibility. Of course, it is not easy to say what sort of thing human thinking actually is, a theme which over the centuries occupied many thinkers, mainly philosophers. From a critical point of view most of their theories were of a speculative nature since their only way of testing was by Gedanken-experi ments. It is the computer which has opened here a wide range of new possibilities since with this tool we now can model real experiments and thus test such theories like physicists do in their field. About a quarter of a century ago, scientific activi ties of that sort were started under the label of artificial intelligence Today these activities establish a wide and prosperous field which the author, in lack of any better name, prefers to call intellectics. Without any doubt, the com puter programs developed in this field have tought us much about the nature of human thinking.
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Bibel, Wolfgang Leonhard was born on October 28, 1938 in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany. Son of Hans and Marie (Riegelbauer) Bibel.
Diploma in Mathematics, University, Munich, Germany, 1964; Dr, University, Munich, Germany, 1968.
Researcher, Technology U., Munich, Germany, 1969-1987; professor, U. B.C., Vancouver, Canada, 1987-1988; professor, Technology U., Darmstadt, Germany, since 1988. Chairman European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, 1981-1986. Chairman International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Inc., Palo Alto, California, 1987-1989.
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Fellow American Association Artificial Intelligence, Association for Logic Programming, Association for Automated Reasoning, German Society for Mathematics Logic and Fundamental Research of Exact Sciences.
Married Monika Achberger, December, 30, 1993. Children: Miriam, Nora, Hannes.